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W. R. COLE.

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No. 250,501. Patented Dee. 6,1881.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT WILLIAM R. COLE, OF POTTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,501, dated December 6, 1881. I

Application filed April 20, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM It. COLE, of Pottsville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Paper- File, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to facilitate temporarily binding sheets,papers, bill-heads, &c.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal elevation of myimprovedpaperfile. Fig.2 is a cross-sectionalelevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is an elevation of the cap provided with the sliding pin, the lower part of this pin beingshown in longitudinal section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The wireA is bent in the form of an oblong, \vitha loop or ring, B, in one of the longitudinal parts, to form a handle or eyelet for bolding or hanging the file, and with spring-coils O O at the ends. The outer longitudinal part of the wirethat is, the one opposite the one with the loop Bis provided with a series of inward bends ornotches, D D. A wire baseframe, E, is rigidly attached to the above-described spring-frame by aseries of arms, F F, in such a manner that the outer longitudinal part will be below and parallel with the outer lougitndinal part of the spring-frame. This baseframe E is provided with a series of upwardprojecting pins, GG, correspondingin position with the bends DD, which surround these pins when the spring-frame is pressed upon the base-frame. The pins G G are passed through the Sheets, papers, bill-heads, notes, 850., to be filed, and a beveled cap or thimble, H, is passed over each pin G. The bends D surround these thimbles and press them on the sheets J, and thus hold the papers on the pins G.

The file may be used without the caps or thimbles, but they are preferred, as persons cannot be injured by the points of the pins if these caps are used. The thimbles or caps H may be constructed with a longitudinal slot, K, in which a button, L, slides, having a pin, M, attached thereto, the lower end of which pin M is provided with a longitudinal recess, N. This device is used as follows: If a single sheet is to be removed, the pin M is pressed upon the pin G, the point of the latter entering the recess of the former. Then the sheets above the one to be removed are pushed upward on the pin M and the caps and the pins M and the sheets thereon are raised sufficiently to permit removing the sheet desired fiom the pins G G. As the caps or thimbles H are beveled,the bendsD will rest against the lower part of these caps; or the caps maybe provided with an outward band or flange at the lower end, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a pape'r-file,thecombinatiomwith a springframe having notches or bends D, of a rigid base-frame attached thereto, of the pins G, of the caps or thimbles H, provided with a slot, K, of the sliding buttons L, and of the pin M, attached thereto and provided with a longitudinal recess, N, in the lower end, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

VIIlJLIAM ROBERTS COLE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. WoL'rJEN, JOHN E. SHULL. 

